Disclosure: I received the product below to review in exchange for sharing my honest opinion.
Now that school is out I have been looking for activities that can both entertain and engage my kids. The Young Scientists Club are makers of kits perfect for introducing kids to science in a fun and engaging manner. The kits come with items to get you started for learning through science experiments, you just need to add household items such as salt, sugar and baking soda.
The newest kit from The Young Scientists Club is the The Magic School Bus™ Growing Crazy Crystals. My kids were thrilled to check out this kit as we have been watching The Magic School Bus lately on Netflix. Ms. Frizzle and her third grade class are there to help kids on a journey of making and observing crystals, rock candy and more.
The kit contains an instruction booklet as a sort of recipe guide that instructs users on how to make the various experiments. There are also tips and facts throughout the book. They are designed to teach basic concepts in chemistry, physics, geology and mathematics.
We just started this kit and my kids cannot wait to grow their own rock crystals, okay to be honest they are most excited about the homemade rock candy. We started first talking about all the tools included and what they are for. While we haven’t started with the rock crystals yet, we have started with the simple experiment so far of examining the different shapes of salt and sugar crystals with a magnifying glass.
The rock crystals do take a few hours to form and they do need to be left alone, which is hard with curious little kids. My kids have been coming up with all their own science experiments and I hate to shatter their dreams of science so I have let them work on their own experiments before doing the actual ones from the book.
BUY IT: The Young Scientists Club’s subscription kits are mailed monthly to thousands of children around the nation and the company’s retail kits are sold in hundreds of specialty stores. All of their kits have been very hot sellers in the Amazon STEM store
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